SPAIN: funder-mandate
Government of the Principality of Asturias
[growth data] http://ria.asturias.es/RIA
Policy details
See ROARMAP
(Thanks to Peter Suber, OA News)
In the 80, when we used several different biological, biomedical and
chemical databases at the same time, for our bibliographic researches (via
Dialog for example) we had a lot of doubles in the results but this problem
has been finally solved : no doubt that researches in repositories will be
imp
Responses below to both Klaus Graf and Thomas Krichel:
Klaus Graf wrote:
Â
(1) Please consider that most universites worldwide
doesn't have IRs.
(a) Each is some free software, some space on a linux server, and a
couple of days' worth of sysad set-up time from having and IR.
(b) To
Stevan Harnad writes
> (Academic freedom refers to the freedom to research (just about) whatever
> one wishes, and to report (just about) whatever one finds and concludes
> therefrom.
in the channel of one's choice. IRs should make themselves
publication channels of choice.
Cheers,
T
-- Forwarded message --
From: Klaus Graf
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
List-Post: goal@eprints.org
Date: 2009/2/5
Subject: Re: Repositories: Institutional or Central ? [in French, from
Rector's blog, U. Liège]
To: fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
(1) Please consider that most universi
Dear all,
I agree. The question of tools for central repository (CR) is central.
- it is preferable to avoid opposing CR and (Institutional repository) IR.
In some countries, CRs may be prominent (particularly because local
institution have a low status, so IR may not mean much to researchers ...
Arthur Sale writes
> I totally disagree that researchers should be free to deposit where they
> will.
This one of the basic tennants of academic fredom. Instititutional
mandates reduce that freedom. That's why I, and many other
academics, oppose mandates.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Chanier Thierry
wrote:
TC:Â
I agree. The question of tools for central repository
(CR) is central.
- it is preferable to avoid opposing CR and
(Institutional repository) IR.
They are not opposed. Both are welcome and useful. What
(From Peter Suber's Open Access News)
Norwegian Research Council adopts an OA mandate
The Norwegian Research Council has adopted an OA mandate. (Thanks to
Jan Erik Frantsvåg.) The full text of the policy has not yet been
released, but OpenAccess.no has a two-sentence summary. Here's the
summa
FRSQ adopts a policy on open access to public research outputs
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At its October 24, 2008 meeting, the Board of Directors of FRSQ
adopted a policy on open access to public research outputs. This new
policy (for new awards or grants issued as of January 2009), which
comes into effect in
On 5-Feb-09, at 9:55 AM, Karen Van Godtsenhoven wrote (in
JISC-REPOSITORIES):
But that's exactly the problem! I don't think
research funders like setting up CR's, they
just have to because there is no full IR
coverage, many institutions, don't have
On 5-Feb-09, at 9:19 AM, Frederick Friend wrote (in
JISC-REPOSITORIES):
As Professor Rentier acknowledges, "most authors are
simply not yet depositing their articles at all", and I
add "often not even when there is an institutional
mandate in place". In that situation criti
** Cross-Posted: Apologies if you receive more than one copy **
This is the English translation of yesterday's timely and incisive
analysis of what is at stake in the question of locus of
deposit (institutional vs. central) for open access self-archiving
mandates universities and research funders.
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